Jews II

1000-1290 CE

From 1000 to 1290 CE, the Jews navigated a world that offered brilliance and catastrophe in equal measure — Córdoba's scholars translating Aristotle, Rhineland communities building traditions of Talmudic learning, Maimonides reconciling faith and reason in Cairo's shadow. Yet the Crusaders' road to Jerusalem ran through the Rhineland's Jewish quarters, and each generation brought new expulsions, new massacres, new yellow badges — until England expelled them entirely, and the wandering began anew.